Arthritis Support Group

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, inflammatory, multisystem, autoimmune disorder. It is a disabling and painful condition which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction.

I am so sorry you are in such a painful condition. In your journal you said you were at friends house. Were you there because your lights and heat was off? I am very fortunate not to have to worry about such things, I have kerocene lamps and a wood heater which feels good to my old bones and the arthritis. I have this one electrical outlet in here as it was put in many years ago to run the air making machine for my husband before he went in the Deep Sleep and the phone is here because we needed it if I had to call the ambulance. My point is all the weather can do to me is shut down my computer and phone line and life will go on interrupted but I feel very sad for those who have to depend on such things. I sincerely hope you get much releif from your pain immediately.

I stay with my friend until i get my SSI but the ice storm made tree limbs fall and knock out the eletric line from the house and got that fix so we could get the eletric back on..we had the gas stove burners going but it didnt warm the house..But everything is back on and my eletric blanket is on with my heating pad so hopefully my bones will warm up and quit aching and after the holidays i'll go see the dr.

A friend sent this to me..As far as I can see, grief will never truly end.It may become softer overtime, more gentleand some days will feel sharp.But grief will last as long as Love does - ForeverIt's simply the way the absence of your loved onemanifests in your heart. A deep longing accompaniedby the deepest Love some days. The heavy fog mayreturn and the next day, it may recede.Once again, it's...

Today is my 25th birthday, to my somewhat lack of surprise I can see already no one really seems to care. I've always been the kinda person to make sure that everyone I Care about feels appreciated and knew somebody had their back. I can count 4 times this year when I Went out of my way to make sure a "friend" felt good on their birthday, especially if they got left hanging. Its early in the...

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